8. Lyric: Notorious BIG – “Juicy (DJ Premier Remix)”
After DJ Premier’s subtle tweaking, “Juicy” was the track it should originally have been. The slightly more propulsive beat allowed the rhythm and phrasing of Bi[…]

9. Songs: Led Zeppelin – “When The Levee Breaks”, Black Sabbath – “The Wizard”
However unlikely it may seem to him, there may come a time when Jimmy Page’s income comes mainly from royalties derived from hip […]

As part of a short series, the first entry in my Current Top 10 Of Hip Hop
(Note: “top 10” does not imply “top 10 songs”.)
10. Song: 2Pac – “Do For Love”
As Jeff Chang discusses in this archived article from […]

GUNS N ROSES – “My Michelle”
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Expectations”
Axl’s belle’s some junkie latchkey kid he’s looking at (and yearning for, even if the lyrics don’t go that explicit), and Be[…]

Lennon tributes from a variety of mostly self-serving Celebs (Sheryl Crow has clearly been faxing the same winsome copy round all the broadsheets, f’r example). Do you want mine? It’s here (today only, then it’s in the archive, ha!)[…]

THE PUB OF POLITICS
(The Blue Posts, Berwick Street, Soho: Two Rounds)
The Blue Posts on Newman Street was, as ever, almost entirely deserted. Its Berwick Street namesake is rammed, and we’re forced into a pokey corner near the cig machine and […]

The Ten Best Hip-Hop Remixes: not actually much to be said about this other than that it’s interesting and mouthwatering. Always nice to find good hip-hop articles, too.[…]

THE PUB OF LIES
(The Blue Posts, Newman Street, Soho: three rounds)
The squad assembles, and conversation begins gently enough with a discussion of my new haircut, the rabbit/headlights difficulty of picking haircuts from a book, and the propensity f[…]

“The horror….the horror….”. Five of us set out on Operation: Blue Posts. And it must be said that five returned, though with Magnus it was a close thing. It has long been a contention of mine that the pub conversation is manki[…]

Bye Bye Select: Select has, of course, been crap for years. But I know that for a few of the people reading this it was something of a bible during its early-90s heyday, with endless articles about how great Julian Cope was, genuinely witty features,[…]